SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of services that improves organizational effectiveness by providing control over electronic content, accelerating shared processes, and facilitating better-informed decisions and information sharing. The Standard Edition includes the following services:
- Collaboration: For sharing information and working together in teams, communities, and people-driven processes
- Portal: For designing, deploying, and managing enterprise intranet portals, Internet Web sites, and divisional portal sites
- Content management: For managing the content of documents, records, and Web sites
- Search: For searching both enterprise content and people
The Enterprise Edition adds services in processes, forms, and business intelligence.
The Standard and Enterprise editions of SharePoint Server have identical installation media. The product key entered in the setup process determines the features that are available for use.
This product includes a server license. Each user or device that accesses SharePoint Server must have a SharePoint Server user or device client access license (CAL).
Installing this product requires a licence key and installation media. Within 14 days of placing your order, instructions for obtaining the licence key will be sent to your organisation's registered e-mail address and free installation media will be delivered to your organisation's registered address.
- Under the Software Assurance program, customers acquire the right to install any new release of products covered in the agreement during the term of their coverage.
- Standard collaboration sites include team sites, document workspaces, meeting workspaces, blogs, and wikis.
- Organizations can store and organize all business documents and content in one central location, giving users a consistent mechanism to navigate and find relevant information.
- Workflows can help automate and gain more visibility into common business activities like document review and approval, issue tracking, and signature collection.
- Users can search file shares, Web sites, SharePoint sites, Exchange Public Folders, and Lotus Notes. They can find people not only by department or job title but also by expertise, social distance, and common interests.
Hardware:
- 2.5-GHz (or higher) processor; 3-GHz dual-core recommended
- 1 GB or more RAM; 2 GB recommended, required for server farm deployment
- 3 GB available hard-disk space
- 1024x768-pixel (or higher) display
- DVD drive, local or network-accessible
Software:
- Windows Server 2003 Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web
- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
- Internet Explorer 6.0; Firefox 1.5; Mozilla 1.7; Netscape 8.1; Internet Explorer recommended for its ActiveX controls
Other:
- Connection speed of 100 Mbps required for farm deployment; 56 Kbps required for standalone installation
- For email notifications — Internet Simple Mail Transfer Protocol/Post Office Protocol 3 (SMTP/POP3), Internet Message Access Protocol 4 (IMAP4), or MAPI-compliant messaging software
- For farm deployment — SQL Server 2000 with SP3a or later
- For some advanced features — SQL 2005 SP1 or later and SQL 2005 Analysis Services SP1 or later
